After carefully reading through this article, please answer, the following questions:
1. What were the major points that made Principled Negotiation (PN) the EFFECTIVE method of choice (relative to other options) for the Irish case study?
2. Can this approach be emulated in and to other environments? Present an example.

1) After its facilities were automated, Flame Metal Works was able to reduce labor hours for Product A by 3,000 hours. Before automation, Product A consumed 8,000 labor hours. Product B was not affected by the automation and continued to consume 7,000 labor hours. Automation increased total overhead from $30,000 $36,000.
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Delana Lighfoot is a production analyst at the Golden Kernel processing plant, which processes whole-kernel cut corn. Delana's current project is to evaluate different levels of automation for quality control inspection of corn kernels.
Option 1 is to assign a number of employees along the conveyor belt to inspect the corn k

Do the following trends weaken or strengthen the competitive advantage of Shomei and to the other competitors in the greeting card industry?
Why?
1) Increases in oil and gas prices
2) The change from seasonal to everyday cards

You have 20 minutes in the next staff meeting to lead a presentation on the following:
What are some of the cutting edge, or "bleeding edge" technologies that corporations are working with?
What does it mean to be an "early adopter" in terms of technology trends?
What kinds of "bleeding edge" technologies could AllTechCom

The cost of developing an internal training program for office automation is unknown but described by the attached probability distribution. What is the expected cost of the course. What is the most probable cost. What is the maximum cost that will occure with a 95% assurance.
See attached file for full problem description.

21A-1. The Office Automation Corporation is considering a foreign investment.
The initial cash outlay will be $10 million. The current foreign exchange rate is 2 ugans _ $1. Thus the investment in foreign currency will be 20 million ugans. The assets have a useful life of five years and no expected salvage value. The firm uses

Describe what office automation and group collaboration software is used in your
organization. Include an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each software used. I work at circuit city, in retail sales. I don't know what office automation is and the only time we use the computers is to ring out sales and to look up

1. Describe what key office automation and group collaboration software is used in any organization?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each software application used?
Please give specific metrics such as on costs, performance aspects of office automation applications. Compare and contrast different products a